colere

See also: colère

French

Noun

colere f (plural coleres)

1. (before approximately 1780) Obsolete form of colère.

Further reading

• “colere”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin colere (“to worship” ← “to protect” ← “to cultivate”), from earlier *quelō, from Proto-Italic *kʷelō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷéleti, derived from the root *kʷel- (“to move; to turn (around)”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.le.re/
• Rhymes: -ɔlere
• Hyphenation: cò‧le‧re

Verb

còlere (first-person singular present còlo, no past historic, no past participle, no imperfect, no future, no subjunctive, no imperfect subjunctive, no imperative)

1. (poetic) to venerate, to revere

   Synonyms: adorare, riverire, venerare

   • L'arte che più tra noi si studia e cole

     The art [referring to flattery] that we study and venerate the most

     (literally, “The art that most among us is studied and venerated”)

     (Ariosto, La vita del cortigiano (Satire, I, line 8))

Usage notes

• The verb is only attested in the present indicative forms colo (first person), coli (second person) and cole (third person).

Conjugation

    Conjugation of còlere (root-stressed -ere; defective) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)

infinitive	còlere
auxiliary verb		—	gerund		—
present participle		—	past participle		—
person	singular			plural
	first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative	io	tu	lui/lei, esso/essa	noi	voi	loro, essi/esse
present	còlo	còli	còle	—	—	—
imperfect	—	—	—	—	—	—
past historic	—	—	—	—	—	—
future	—	—	—	—	—	—
conditional	io	tu	lui/lei, esso/essa	noi	voi	loro, essi/esse
present	—	—	—	—	—	—
subjunctive	che io	che tu	che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa	che noi	che voi	che loro, che essi/che esse
present	—	—	—	—	—	—
imperfect	—	—	—	—	—	—
imperative	—	tu	Lei	noi	voi	Loro
		—	—	—	—	—
negative imperative		—	—	—	—	—

Related terms

• colto
• culto

Further reading

• colere in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

Anagrams

• Ercole, celerò, creole, ercole

Latin

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• colere: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.le.re/, [ˈkɔɫ̪ɛrɛ]
• colere: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.le.re/, [ˈkɔːlere]
• colēre: (Classical) IPA^(key): /koˈleː.re/, [kɔˈɫ̪eːrɛ]
• colēre: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /koˈle.re/, [koˈlɛːre]

Verb

colere

1. inflection of colō:
   1. present active infinitive
   2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative

Verb

colēre

1. second-person singular future passive indicative of colō

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /koːˈleː.re/, [koːˈɫ̪eːrɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /koˈle.re/, [koˈlɛːre]

Verb

cōlēre

1. second-person singular present passive subjunctive of cōlō

Middle English

Noun

colere

1. Alternative form of coler (“collar”)